Autonomous system
AS50894 SPS-AS
Hosting RIPE
Summary
Kindred Group
gaming business malta
SPS-AS is held by Kindred Group, a major online gambling and betting operator.
What it's used for
- The space carries corporate infrastructure, indicated by the netname
MT-KINDRED-20100416and registrantKindred NOC. - The AS announces 2048 IPv4 addresses in a single prefix (
178.22.240.0/21) with one observed neighbour, implying a direct peering or transit relationship for a specific corporate site rather than a broad access network. - Traffic from this AS consists of web and API endpoints for Kindred's online betting and gaming platforms, serving customers across Europe.
Notable
- Registrants
Kindred NOCandKindred IP Limitedalign with the announcer, confirming the space is owned by the operator. - Kindred Group was acquired by La Française des Jeux (FDJ) in October 2024.
- The address inventory is a single contiguous /21 block, typical of a corporate estate rather than a fragmented ISP allocation.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS47171 | Kindred IP Limited | 174 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-13, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 1 prefixes · 2.05K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| MT | Malta | 1 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS50894- Registry name
- SPS-AS
- Registrant
- kindred-ip-MNT
- Abuse contact
- fnc-networks@kindredgroup.com
- Registered
- 2010-04-16
- Last changed
- 2026-08-13
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS50894
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 1 naming AS50894
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 440 networks and 1,773 prefixes, as published 2026-10-13. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere